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as many short or long-siibulate [Myrmidone^) teeth interposed. Petals 

 various. Stamens 8-10 (nearly of Tococa). Q-ermen generally quite 

 adnate inferior, sometimes depressed at apex, more rarely free in part 

 {Sagrcea}); style, &c. of Tococa. — Shrubs or undershrubs, more rarely 

 herbs ; leaves with a basilar vesicle (Galophysa, Eumaieta, Myrmidone, 

 Microphysca) or without [Sagrcea, Clidemia,^ Heterotrichum *) ; flowers 

 generally lateral or axillary, rarely terminal (Clidemia, Heterotrichum), 

 collected in cymes, sometimes in more or less compound, sometimes 

 in contracted and subcapituliform racemes. {Both trop. Americas.^) 



37. Henriettea DC.^ — Flowers 5- or more rarely 4-6-merous; 

 receptacle campanulate, oftener externally setose. Calyx more or 

 less dilated, subtruncate or dentate or lobed. Petals pointed or obtuse, 

 sometimes coherent. Stamens 8-12, 2-seriate, subequal ; anthers 

 linear-oblong, straight or incurved, or short obtuse recurved (Henri- 

 ettella') ; connective not produced, inappendiculate or with short dorsal 

 spur. Germen 4-6-celled, quite' adnate to receptacle or nearly so ; 

 style truncate or capitellate at apex. — Trees or shrubs, glabrous or 

 with various indumentum; leaves coriaceous, entire or denticulate, 

 3-5-nerved ; flowers' in ramose cymes or glomerules springing from 

 under leaves. (Trop. America.^) 



' Mart. N'.v. Gen. H Sp. iii. 149, t. 279.— 

 Endl. Gen. n. 6233.— B.H. Gen. 767, n. 118.— 

 Tri. Melast. 141. 



2 DO. Prodr. iii. 170 (notNAur.).— Endl.G««. 

 n. 6243.— B. H. Gen. 766, n. 113.— Tki. Melast. 

 137. — Staphydiastrum Naxjd. foe. eit. xvii. 325 

 (Hence not separable from Clidemia, thenoe 

 from Maieta). 



3 Don, Mem. Wern. Soc. iv. 306. — DO. Frodr- 

 iii. 155 (part).— Endl. Gen. n. 6229.— B. H. Gen. 

 766, n. 112.— Tri. Melast. 13i.— Staphidnm 

 NAtTD. foe. eit. XTJi. 306 (part). — Stephmioiri- 

 chvm (Naud. foe. eit. iv. 54 (Petals verj' various, 

 either linear or obtuse or sometimes retuae). 



■* DC. Prodr. iii. 173.— Endl. Gen. n. 6245.— 

 Navd. loo. eit. xviii. 85.— B. H. Gen. 765, n. 110. 

 — Tki. Melast. 134. — Oetomeris Nabd. foe. eit. 

 xvii. 378. — Diplodonta Karst. linncea, xxviii. 

 439 (Germen often depressed at apex ; tube of 

 receptacle sometimes clotbed above with a thin 

 disk). 

 ' ° Spec, about 75. Auel. Guian. t. 167 (Mela- 

 ,«<()»»«),— B. Melast. t. 3, 4, 39, 44.— Mart. Ni,ti. 

 Gen. et Sp. iii. t. 280, 281 («»yj-(B«).— Mia. 



Comm. Sot. t. 11 B.— Griseb. PI. Brit. W.-Ind. 

 246 {Clidemia, part).— 5o«. Mag. t. 1971 {Mela- 

 atoma), 4421 (Heterotrichwm). — Walp. Sep. ii. 

 138 {Clidemia) 141 (Mffrmidone) , 142; v. 706 

 (Oetomeris, part), 709 (Clidemia), 710 [Myria- 

 spi.ra), 711, Tl1{Sagr(m), 720 (Stephanotrichum) ; 

 Ann. ii. 603 {Clidemia), 607 (Heterotriehum) ; iv. 

 699, 700 (Mierophysa), 701 (Myriaspora), 745 

 {Staphidimn). 761 (Staphidiastrum), 755 (Clide- 

 mia), 770 (Oetomeris, -pait), 771 (Eeterotrichwn), 

 774 (Snyrisa). 



Prodr. iii. 178.— Endl. Gen.-o.. 6262.— Naud. 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, iv. 56 ; xviii. 104. — B. H. 

 Gen. 768, u. 122.— Tri. Melast. Ui.—Phyllopm 

 Mart. Nov. Gen. et Sp. iii. 143, t. 275. 



? Naud. foe. eit. xviii. 107.— B. H. Gen. 769, 

 n. 124. — Tri. Melast. 143. — Aphanodon Nadd. 

 loc. eit, xviii. 110 (Petals often pointed, but 

 sometimes, as in the legitimate Henriettece, 

 obtuse). 



s Small or rather large, white or pink. 



» Spec, about 20. Aiiel. Guian. t. 162 (Mela- 

 itomc^. — P. Be,. Jam. t. 24, fig. 1, 2 (Melastoma). 

 — Vahl, Eel. iii. t. 23 (Melailoma), 48 (Mela- 



